Charles Sumner: “The whole tale, with the mode of obtaining the copy of the Constitution, is at once cock-and-bull story and mare’s…”

“The whole tale, with the mode of obtaining the copy of the Constitution, is at once cock-and-bull story and mare’s nest,--trivial as the former, absurd as the latter,--and to be dismissed, with the Apology founded upon it, to the derision which triviality and absurdity justly receive.”